Your Adoption Coach

Archives Available

November 22nd 2014:Dave Thomas Foundation - Celebrates National Adoption Day

Join us with special guest, Rita Soronen, CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation and Cassidy Mack, National Adoption Day youth advocate. We'll discuss the Dave Thomas Foundation's recent announcement of the Top 100 Adoption-Friendly Workplaces. Companies from American Express to Zappo, leading the charge on providing adoption-friendly benefits to their employees.

This is the 8th year for the program and Rita shares her insights for how the program has grown over the years and some of the amazing benefits some of the companies are providing!

Tune in

Featured Guests

Rita Soronen

Rita Soronen, President and CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation. For nearly 30 years, Rita has worked on behalf of abused, neglected and vulnerable children providing leadership for local, state, and national efforts. As President and CEO for the Dave Thomas Foundation since 2001, She has worked to find families for each of the more than 130,000 waiting children in the United States. Ms. Soronen currently serves on the board of the Ohio CASA/GAL Association, the public education committee of the National CASA Association and is past vice president of the board of the congressional coalition on Adoption institute and has been awarded the Angels in Adoption Award for the Congressional Coali

Cassidy Mack

National Adoption Day Youth Advocate
Spending her early years in the Foster Care system, Cassidy joined her forever family by adoption at the age of 6 which changed her life dramatically. She started her career on the stage doing Musical Theatre, where she caught the acting bug. After a chance meeting with Ryan Gosling, she decided that her destiny was actually going to be as a film and television actress and she set out to find herself representation. Luckily for her, she was immediately signed and her journey began. Since then, Cassidy has enjoyed working has appeared in commercials, short and feature films and has had several co-star roles on television. She uses her past experiences